Elina Vasu

My role as a University Lecturer in English Linguistics includes teaching and research activities. I teach linguistics, language variation, and themes around second-language intelligibility to BA and MA students. In addition, I am active within language teachers' in-service training. My research interests include second-language intelligibility, comprehensibility, fluency, and accent, and pronunciation learning, teaching, and assessment.

Courses taught

KIE.ENA.111 Language Analysis 1

KIE.ENA.121 Language Analysis 2

KIE.ENA.230 Variety in Present-Day English

KIE.ENY.394 Second Language Intelligibility

KIE.ENY.395 Teaching English for Intelligibility

Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation, Co-coordinator

Nordic Speech Research Forum, Co-host

Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA), Executive Board member 2026-

Vasu, E. & Kirkova-Naskova, A. (Eds., in press). Achievements in second language pronunciation: Good practices for teaching and learning. Cambridge University Press.

Vasu, E. (accepted). Pronunciation teaching materials. The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Wiley Blackwell.

Vasu, E. (2025). Utterance fluency development across CEFR-based proficiency assessments from A2 to B2. Studies in Second Language Assessment, 14(1), 153-177. https://doi.org/10.58379/LEPJ2220

Tergujeff-Vasu, E. (2025). What constitutes second language comprehensibility and accentedness? Evidence from new speaker groups. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 6(3), 289–308. https://doi.org/10.3138/jmbs-26957-tergujeff

Tergujeff, E. (2024). Second language learners listening to their peers’ English: Is there a shared L1 language effect for L2 comprehensibility and accentedness? European Journal of Applied Linguistics, 12(2), 469–491. https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2022-0014

Tergujeff, E. & Kuronen, M. (2023). Teaching classic put to the test: Do tongue twisters work for L2 pronunciation? Foreign Language Annals, 56(2), 381–400. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12671.

Tergujeff, E. (2022). Pronunciation teaching in EFL K-12 settings. In J. M. Levis, T. M. Derwing & S. Sonsaat-Hegelheimer (Eds.), Second language pronunciation: Bridging the gap between research and teaching (pp. 235–253). Wiley Blackwell.

Tergujeff, E. (2021). Second language comprehensibility and accentedness across oral proficiency levels: A comparison of two L1s. System 100 (Aug 2021), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2021.102567

Tergujeff, E., Kuronen, M. & Kautonen, M. (2020). Kazoo for pronunciation practice and reduced foreign accentedness? Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 14(3), 290–302. https://doi.org/10.1080/17501229.2019.1586908 

Tergujeff, E. & Kautonen, M. (Eds.) (2019). Suullinen kielitaito: opi, opeta, arvioi. Otava.